About GFI Retail Since 1983, GFI Mortgage Bankers has offered residential clients not simply a mortgage - but a partner in the home buying process. Beginning as a neighborhood lender, GFI is currently one of the largest licensed home mortgage firms, funding $1 billion in mortgages annually. Our mortgage branches are located in New York, New Jersey, Florida, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Maryland.

GFI’s highly trained mortgage professionals take a hands-on approach to every transaction, working directly with real estate brokers, developers, and attorneys for fast approvals, while conveniently providing in-house processing, underwriting and closing.

GFI strives to offer first time purchasers and existing homeowners the most competitive and best suited mortgage and home equity loans available. As a direct lender, we are able to provide hundreds of loan programs to our clients and specialize in arranging financing designed to meet the specific requirements of each borrower.

GFI Commercial Finance is our commercial mortgage brokerage division, which provides a broad range of debt finance products to our commercial real estate clients. Commercial Finance recognizes the challenges in today’s marketplace and the value of committed professionals who understand the unique needs of each client.  As a result, we are able to provide our clients with a broad array of creative financing solutions, including bridge/interim, mezzanine/preferred equity, structured, and construction loans, as well as a diverse offering of permanent finance products.

At GFI, we are experts in commercial real estate finance, offering clients highly responsive service and competitive sources of capital, thereby removing the uncertainty from the financing process.  Customized financing plans are created that enable transactions to close quickly and efficiently. We arrange commercial mortgage loans ranging from $500,000-$500,000,000, secured by the full range of property types, including multifamily, office, retail, industrial, hotel, co-op and special use.